Jhpiego receives $2.2 million for international women's health initiatives
01 February 2007
Baltimore, Maryland—Jhpiego, an international health
affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University, has received several awards totaling
nearly $2.2
million to strengthen maternal and newborn health services in Cambodia, Kenya
and Nepal.
The Jhpiego-led ACCESS Program has received a three year, $1.8 million award to
assist the Cambodian Ministry of Health and key local stakeholders in improving availability of
and access to high-quality, sustainable maternal and newborn health services. Under this U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded award, the areas in which ACCESS (Access
to Clinical and Community Maternal, Neonatal and Women’s Health Services Program) will
contribute are: policy issues, including recruitment, deployment and retention of midwives;
expansion of high-priority health interventions to national scale; training of midwives in
essential and emergency obstetrical and newborn care (life-saving skills); education for
midwifery students, including the development of learning materials; prevention of postpartum
hemorrhage in facilities and in the community; and integration of essential newborn care with
existing services.
The Wallace Global Fund has awarded Jhpiego $245,000 over two years to
implement “Expanding Reproductive Healthcare in African Informal Settlements.” The
program aims to increase access to safe, quality reproductive health for women in living in the
slum urban settlements of Korogocho and Viwandani in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Nick Simons Institute (NSI) has awarded Jhpiego $137,218 to provide technical
assistance to improve health care in rural areas of Nepal. Jhpiego will help strengthen provider
performance through competency-based clinical training for skilled birth attendants and health
assistants. Jhpiego will upgrade at least one NSI partner hospital to function as a training
site for skilled birth attendants, and will also develop a health assistant practicum and
related clinical training and performance improvement activities.
“Jhpiego is fortunate to be able to support such important issues that
face women and families in low-resource settings around the world. These funds will help us
continue our efforts to equip health care providers in these countries as they work to save
and improve the lives of thousands of women and children,” says Dr. Leslie Mancuso,
President and CEO of Jhpiego.
About Jhpiego
For nearly 40 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health
workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that
strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the
household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to
national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through
advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance
improvement approaches.
About ACCESS
The ACCESS Program is the U.S. Agency for
International Development's global program to improve maternal and newborn health.
The ACCESS Program works to expand coverage, access and use of key maternal and newborn
health services across a continuum of care from the household to the hospital—with the
aim of making quality health services accessible for women and newborns. Jhpiego
implements the program in partnership with Save the Children, Constella Futures, the
Academy for Educational Development, the American College of Nurse-Midwives and
IMA World Health.
About the Wallace Global Fund
The goal of the Wallace Global Fund
is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, to fight injustice, and to
protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends.
About Nick Simons Institute
Nick Simons Institute
is a network of hospital and community projects that share a common vision
for improving health care in the rural areas of Nepal. Initially this network will include
Patan Hospital, Tansen Mission Hospital, Okhaldhunga Hospital, Lamjung Hospital, Rukum Living
River Hospital and Dandeldhura TEAM Hospital—along with several other hospitals still to be
negotiated, and their associated community projects.
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